The Australian group of virtuoso musicians, Totally Gourdgeous, plays on all manner of instruments made from gourds. I seem to recall a gurdy for sale a couple of years ago made from one. Greg ----- Original Message ----- From: Marsbar To: hg@hurdygurdy.com Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2008 9:10 AM Subject: RE: [HG] Harpe de Gourde
My mother used to grow ornamental gourds. They were like different shaped pumpkins and had very hard skin and very watery insides like vegetable marrows or zucchini that just dried up and left the hard shell and a few seeds maybe rattling inside. The larger ones you could carefully cut the top off and clean out and they would make good water containers. You really only see them used in African instruments these days but it depends where you are I guess. Fi From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of sylvain gagnon mini moteur 2000 inc Sent: Sunday, 28 September 2008 8:54 AM To: hg@hurdygurdy.com Subject: Re: [HG] Harpe de Gourde "harpe de gourde" is in french gourde is a container to put water when you are in desert , or the recipient the armed forces guys put water inside ,, it can look coconut shell,,, or alluminium bottle with green cloth cover all around ..or ? gourde is a water container .. bye sylvain
